September 21, 2008
Richard Stevens:
John Carlson and I went searching for Mountain Plover on the Pawnee National Grasslands. It is getting late in the year, but we thought we would give it a shot. Our 6 hour searched turned up without any Mountain Plover sightings. We hiked for hours in the field north of Weld County Road 94 and 63. Then we tried for another couple of hours along CR 96, north of Murphy's Pasture.
In the second field we did run into two Chestnut-collared Longspurs and a dozen McCown's Longspurs! Horned Larks were plentiful. We did not find any Lark Buntings however.
A brief stop at Crow Valley Campgrounds was uneventful. We did find a House Wren, Hermit Thrush, and Brown Thrasher.
No Mountain Plover were found at Highway 14 and CR 51. The search for the Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the Weld County Landfill was also unsuccessful.
We did not have time (daylight) to checkout Lower Latham and Loloff Reservoirs.
Richard Stevens:
John Carlson and I went searching for Mountain Plover on the Pawnee National Grasslands. It is getting late in the year, but we thought we would give it a shot. Our 6 hour searched turned up without any Mountain Plover sightings. We hiked for hours in the field north of Weld County Road 94 and 63. Then we tried for another couple of hours along CR 96, north of Murphy's Pasture.
In the second field we did run into two Chestnut-collared Longspurs and a dozen McCown's Longspurs! Horned Larks were plentiful. We did not find any Lark Buntings however.
A brief stop at Crow Valley Campgrounds was uneventful. We did find a House Wren, Hermit Thrush, and Brown Thrasher.
No Mountain Plover were found at Highway 14 and CR 51. The search for the Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the Weld County Landfill was also unsuccessful.
We did not have time (daylight) to checkout Lower Latham and Loloff Reservoirs.
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